Excerpt from Three Important Questions Considered

Though Ezra does not, like Josephus, give the express words of Cyrus, he in many ways makes it clear that Cyrus did build Jerusalem. For example, he declared that the object was that the word Of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be ful filled, (ezra 1 which was that the city shall be built, (jere. 30: 18) and then informs us that as early as the second year of Cyrus, the Jews were at Jerusalem building the city, (ezra 4.

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